Changes in the way emails are being handled

For nearly forever, this site (and all of my other active forums, to be honest) have been plagued with problems from email providers like gmail and yahoo (among others) where some of the emails generated by this site and by members will go through to the intended destination and others will not. This has been pretty aggravating, because quite a few new memberships will be caught in a limbo state every day as they never receive the verification emailed to their account email address, and I would have to go in and try to verify that they were a legit user as much as possible, and then manually approve their registration. Not much of a real big deal, but sometimes the number of little deals I have to do is more than I want to deal with some days.

I'm still not sure why some worked and some didn't, but one of the things I've learned from the new server tech guys I am working with is that using the internal PHP mail() function will often send incomplete email headers that some mail services will just reject. So they suggested that I use my SMTP email service and faunaclassifieds email account already set up on the server for this function, as it should prove to be much more reliable at delivering emails to nearly everyone. Theoretically, anyway.

Soooo, I am giving that suggestion a whirl. I figure it will either make things better, make no difference at all, or make things worse. I'll just have to wait and see which it is and go from there.

This is just a fyi in case you happen to notice anything different in reference to email messages and the like around here.